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The East Tennessee Historical Society coordinates the East Tennessee Region of Tennessee History Day, the state affiliate of National History Day (NHD). The NHD program is a great way to engage middle and high school students in investigating topics of interest to them and involve them in rich primary source research as they develop individual or group projects. Project categories are documentary, website, exhibit, paper, or performance. Contact Lisa Oakley at oakley@eastTNhistory.org for more information.

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History Day has been the vehicle that creates an understanding and appreciation of history while developing the necessary 21st-century tools, skills and aptitudes for my diverse student population.

‑Martin Marrin, Teacher

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History Day has been the vehicle that creates an understanding and appreciation of history while developing the necessary 21st-century tools, skills and aptitudes for my diverse student population. ‑Martin Marrin, Teacher

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Contact to Book a Group or for Questions

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Contact to Book a Group or for Questions

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Please email Education@EastTNHistory.org or call 865-215-8875 to learn more or book a group.

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Our artifact cards highlight important pieces in our gallery and expand upon the information provided in the gallery.

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Whether you are preparing for a field trip to our museum or preparing for a history lesson in the classroom, we invite you to take advantage of the resources we make available on our website. Feel free to contact us at education@eastTNhistory.org if you need additional information.

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Lesson Plans

Teaching Tennessee History
Lesson Plans for the Classroom

The annual Summer Teachers History Seminars/Workshops are an opportunity for a select group of teachers to participate in an in depth study of a specific topic in Tennessee history. At the end of many of the seminars/workshops, each teacher prepares a lesson based on the week’s study. The lesson plans are then made available to teachers across the state.

We invite you to browse through these lesson plans to choose helpful ideas for your classroom use.

The War Within A War: The Hidden Stories of the Civil War's Impact on Tennessee

Facing Change: The Impact of the New Deal and World War II on East Tennessee

Teaching Appalachia: Image and Reality of Appalachian Culture

Cultures in Conflict: The Revolutionary Era on the Cherokee Frontier

From Tennessee to the White House: The Journeys of Jackson, Polk, and Johnson

Making History Personal: Family and Local History in the Classroom

Voices of Opportunity: Industrialization Comes to Tennessee

Freedom Spirit: Tennessee and the Civil Rights Movement

History by the Book: Integrating Language Arts and Primary Sources into Elementary Social Studies Instruction

Knoxville: The Heart of the Civil War in East Tennessee

The Summer Teachers History Seminars/Workshops are a program of the East Tennessee Historical Society.

Project Director:     Lisa N. Oakley, 865-215-8828 or oakley@eastTNhistory.org
Project Facilitator:  Joe Spence
Lesson Plans created by participating teachers

Funded in part by a grant from
Humanities Tennessee

With additional support from The Grimes Family Donor Advised Fund of the East Tennessee Foundation, established by Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Grimes and Katie Dean Foundation and Wackenhut, Oak Ridge.

History Links and Resources

Teachers will find a number of helpful resources on the Teach Tennessee History website. The information includes Teaching American History projects and easily accessible teacher and student materials.

Looking for more resources on a specific historical era? If so, check out the Historical Eras page to discover primary sources, content essays, images, activities, and web links in an easily searchable format.

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Lesson Plans Teaching Tennessee History Lesson Plans for the Classroom The annual Summer Teachers History Seminars/Workshops are an opportunity for a select group of teachers to participate in an in depth study of a specific topic in Tennessee history. At the end of many of the seminars/workshops, e…

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Our Change Over Time activity takes place in the gallery and introduces students to the ways in which human lives and objects have been transformed by technology and innovation. Students will go with a museum educator to various items in the museum and discuss whether or not it fits into any of their four designated categories (Entertainment, Transportation, Communication, and Technology). Sometimes things fit into more than one category and sometimes things have changed categories from 1700 to 1982!

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When you arrive in downtown Knoxville on the day of your visit you'll park your bus on Gay Street and unload students almost directly at our front door. We will welcome you and your students into our building where we'll have a short orientation before splitting into groups for activities. Our staff members and volunteers will guide students and teachers through their learning experience at the museum by encouraging curiosity and facilitating activities intended to educate students about history in East Tennessee. If a visit to the museum gift shop, a popular destination for our younger guests, is desired we ask that thirty minutes of your visit be designated for that activity and we are able to stagger activities so that everyone gets a chance to shop.

What follows is a description of some of the programs we offer for grades 1st through 12th.

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Analysis of a historical event for 4th through 12th grade

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Analysis of a historical event for 4th through 12th grade

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This activity introduces students to historical analysis by presenting Samual Doak's sermon and speech and encouraging them to discuss the meaning and intent of the words he chose for this purpose. We encourage students to examine these events from both a modern and historical viewpoint and this activity involves a little bit of reader's theatre with students playing the roles of John Sevier and Samuel Doak.

Huzzah!

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Our Virtual Escape Rooms necessitate group work and the use of cellular devices. Students are paired up and given a QR Code to scan which takes them to a Padlet that contains escape rooms for each of the four main sections of our gallery.
These sections are; 1700s Frontier, the Civil War, the Industrial Era, and the Progressive Era ending with the 1982 World's Fair. Students are timed in their ability to find artifacts and answer questions and this activity is usually treated as a contest to see which group can finish with the best time.

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Students will be allowed to explore our gallery to look for as many of these objects as possible. There are a few options based on various reading/writing levels. After an allotted period of time, students will regroup and walk through the gallery as a team to ask questions and learn about some of the large objects.

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Artifact Exploration for 5th through 12th grade

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Artifact Exploration for 5th through 12th grade

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An activity that requires students to examine an artifact and use context clues to place it on a timeline. The timeline and artifacts span the years between 1700 and 2000 and include key events in East Tennessee history including the beginning of the TVA and the 1982 World's Fair.

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Students explore the past using artifacts.

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Artifact Exploration for 1st through 4th grade

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Artifact Exploration for 1st through 4th grade

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This program consists of nine boxes containing artifacts which would possibly have belonged to people in the late 1700s in East Tennessee. Your students will handle the artifacts and work to determine what job or role in society their former owner might have had.

We enjoy bringing this activity to your classroom as well! If a field trip isn't in the books for you please contact us about a classroom visit; education@eastTnhistory.org.

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Welcome Tennessee teachers and students to the East Tennessee Historical Society's (ETHS) revised education resource website for teaching American, Tennessee, and East Tennessee History.

ETHS was fortunate to partner with 11 school systems and the University of Tennessee's Department of History from 2003-2014 on three Teaching American History Grants funded through the U.S. Department of Education. The www.teachamericanhistory.org website grew and evolved as a result of these partnerships. A continuing partnership with Humanities Tennessee has allowed ETHS continue to maintain and revise the website, now www.teachTNHistory.org, to meet the needs of teachers and students throughout Tennessee.

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Welcome Tennessee teachers and students to the East Tennessee Historical Society's (ETHS) revised education resource website for teaching American, Tennessee, and East Tennessee History. ETHS was fortunate to partner with 11 school systems and the University of Tennessee's Department of History from 2003-2014 on three Teaching American History Grants funded through the U.S.

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An activity to complete with students in the classroom before visiting our museum! This will prepare students for the vocabulary they'll need to be familiar with to enhance their understanding of the subject matter.

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The Gallery Hunt for grades 5-8 involves group work and answering questions. Each team will be given a time limit and will be given the opportunity to explore every time period represented in our gallery. The answers to all of these questions are available in the gallery or in an Artifact Card provided by the Education Program Manager.

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An activity to complete with students in the classroom before visiting our museum! This will prepare students for the vocabulary they'll need to be familiar with to enhance their understanding of the subject matter.

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An activity to complete with students in the classroom before visiting our museum! This will prepare students for the vocabulary they'll need to be familiar with to enhance their understanding of the subject matter.

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An activity to complete with students in the classroom before visiting our museum! This will prepare students for the vocabulary they'll need to be familiar with to enhance their understanding of the subject matter.

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An activity to complete with students in the classroom before visiting our museum! This will prepare students for the vocabulary they'll need to be familiar with to enhance their understanding of the subject matter.